The
Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism

Edited
and Introduction by Keith Newlin

Contents

Introduction:
The Naturalistic Imagination and the Aesthetics of Excess
Keith Newlin

Part 1: Contexts

1. Romancing the Machine: American Naturalism in Transatlantic Context
Zena Meadowsong
2. The Response to Power in American Literary Naturalism: Visions and
Revisions that Transformed a Narrative Mode
Richard Lehan
3. Nature in Naturalism
Bert Bender